Talk:Ø

Ø (ø) is a vowel (bwym) and a letter (jixbuo) used in the Danish, Norwegian languages.

MLT Usage

In Modern Literal Taiwanese, this letter is used for the sound written in POJ and TL as a plain o. In Køhioong accent, it is a close-mid back unrounded vowel ([ɤ]). In Taipag accent, it is a close-mid back rounded vowel ([o]). It may be spoken variously as [o], [ɤ], [ə]. For example, hør (good), øar (oyster), ørgiøo (jelly fig), and Ørciw (Australia) are all written with ø. The MLT finals ø and iø appear in all seven tones, including øh and iøh.

The digraph øe can be used for unified spelling across dialects.

Computers

• macOS: option key and o
• iOS: hold down o to see options
• Microsoft Windows:
  • Alt-0248: hold Alt and input 0248 on the keypad
  • using the "United States-International" keyboard setting, it can be typed by holding down the "Alt-Gr" (right Alt) key and pressing "L"
• MS Word: Ctrl / together, then press o

• Unicode, Ø is U+00D8 and ø is U+00F8
• HTML named character reference (standard: HTML 2.0):
  • Ø
  • ø

History in Written Taiwanese

In the Apple II era (1980s and early 1990s), Taiwanese Modern Spelling System used an "o" crossed by a backslash.

From the Explanation on Concise Atonal Spelling and TMSS Dictionary (2001-2003):

1. The character "o" is specially invented for helping readers to pronounce the character "o" with a sound different from the normal vowel [o] in English "program", "sorry" or "story". In Southern part of Taiwan, "o" is pronounced somewhat like European [ø] or the last sound of English "teacher". In Taiwanese, a dissyllable word which has "o" to be pronounced as [o], rarely has a corresponding word of the same spelling where "o" is pronounced as [o], and vice versa. For instant, the word "olor" is only pronounced as [olor] and no such word with pronunciation of [olor], [olor], or [olor] exists. In this connection, the phonetic character "o" is mostly substituted with the normal character of "o" in documents of MLT/TMSS.
2. The spelling with "oe" means that the word may be pronounced as either [oe] or [e]. In MLT documents it is substituted with spelling "oe" for convenience. The judgement is up to the reader.

In this website, we use "ø". In some cases it is convenient to use "Q" or "0" instead.

Other uses

• Ø, Denmark is a piece of land in the valley of the Nørreå in the eastern part of Jutland, Denmark. Its name means "island".